Talbot Plastics Wins Top Award At 2004 Plastics Industry Design Awards
October 12, 2004 | Levent OZLER
The 2004 Plastics Industry Design Awards top award winner is Talbot Plastics Ltd, for a product that epitomises the Kiwi ‘can-do̵ 7; attitude.
The Christchurch-based manufacturer and exporter won the NZ Trade and Enterprise Supreme Award for the design and manufacture of its POS Terminal Fascia, an in-mould card reader fascia built to withstand the harsh environment of a service station forecourt.
Prime Minister Helen Clark presented the design awards at a gala dinner in Auckland on October 8. The biennial awards are organised by Plastics New Zealand to showcase innovation in the plastics industry and promote excellence in the creation, design, production, manufacture and marketing of plastic products.
Award judges were impressed by the complex nature of the POS Terminal Fascia’s multi-stage production and its international sophistication. “Internation al experts on in-mould decoration said this product could not be made,” the award judges said. “The result is, what appears to be, the biggest in-mould labelled lens ever produced in the world.
“As a measure of the complexity of this project, it should be noted that none of the specialist manufacturers of in-mould labels in Taiwan and Germany would consider the project, at any price.”
The award judges commended the ingenuity of the Talbot product development team,
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